Otello / Verdi, Domingo, Studer, Leiferkus, Vargas, D. Graves, Schade, D'Arcangelo, Chung
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Composer: Giuseppe VerdiConductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestra: Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Op?ra Bastille
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-10-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Otello: Act 1 : 'Una vela! Una vela!' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Esultate! L'orgoglio musulmano' (Otello)
- Otello: 'Roderigo, ebben che pensi?' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Fuoco di gioia' (Coro)
- Otello: 'Roderigo, beviam!' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Inaffia l'ugola!' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Capitano, v'attende la fazione ai baluardi' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Abbasso le spade!' (Otello, Jago)
- Otello: 'Gia nelle notte densa' (Otello, Desdemona)
- Otello: Act 2 : 'Non ti crucciar' (Jago, Cassio)
- Otello: 'Vanne! la tua meta gia vedo' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Credo in un dio crudel' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Cio m'accora...' - 'Che parli?' (Jago, Otello)
- Otello: 'Dove guardi splendono raggi' (Jago, Desdemona, Otello)
- Otello: 'D'un uom che geme sotto il tuo disdegno' (Desdemona, Otello)
- Otello: 'Se inconsci, contro te, sposo, ho peccato' (Desdemona, Otello, Jago)
- Otello: 'Desdemona rea!' (Otello, Jago)
- Otello: 'Tu?! Indietro! fuggi!!' (Otello)
- Otello: 'Ora e per sempre addio' (Otello)
- Otello: 'Pace, signor' (Jago, Otello)
- Otello: 'Era la notte, Cassio doemia' (Jago)
- Otello: 'Oh! mostruosa colpa!' (Otello, Jago)
- Otello: 'Si, pel ciel marmoreo giuro!' (Otello, Jago)
- Otello: Act 3 : 'La vedetta del porto ha segnalato la venta galea' (Otello)
- Otello: 'Continua' - 'Qui trarro Cassion' (Otello, Jago)
- Otello: 'Dio ti giovondi, o sposo' (Desdemona, Otello)
- Otello: 'Esterrefatta fisso' (Desdemona, Otello)
- Otello: 'Dio! mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali' (Otello)
- Otello: 'Cassio e la!' (Jago, Otello)
- Otello: 'Vieni; l'aula e deserta' (Jago, Otello)
- Otello: '...e intano, giacche non si stanco mai' (Jago, Otello)
- Otello: 'Quest'e il segnale' (Jago, Otello)
- Otello: 'Il Doge ed il Senato salutano' (Otello, Desdemona, Jago)
- Otello: 'Messer!...Il Doge...' (Otello, Jago)
- Otello: 'A terra!... si nel... livido fango' (Desdemona)
- Otello: 'Quell' innocente un fremito' (Emila, Cassio, Roderigo, Lodovico, Coro, Desdemona, Jago, Otello)
- Otello: 'Fuggite!' (Otello, Desdemona, Jago)
- Otello: Act Four : 'era piu calom?' (Desdemona)
- Otello: 'Mia madrea aveva una pvera anvella' (Desdemona)
- Otello: 'Piangea contando mell'erma landa' (Desdemona)
- Otello: 'Ave Maria, Piena Di Grazia' (Desdemona)
- Otello: 'Chi e la? Otella?' (Desdemona, OTello)
- Otello: 'Diceste questa sera la vostre preci?' (Otello, Desdemona)
- Otello: 'Aprite! Aprite!' (Emilia, Otello, Desdemona, Cassio, Jago, Lodovico, Montano)
- Otello: 'Niun me tema' (Otello)
Free Music Notes for Otello / Verdi, Domingo, Studer, Leiferkus, Vargas, D. Graves, Schade, D'Arcangelo, Chung
Free Music Review: Not Domingo's Best: Third Time Is Not Always A Charm Bad Casting Choices
Hit: 5 Stars
This 90's Deutsche Grammophone recording of Otello is Placido Domingo's third studio recording but is not by any means his best. Although he sings with great passion and power, he has sung better Otellos. Look to his Otello with Mirella Freni ( a rare one and his first) RCA Otello with Renata Scotto and Sherill Milnes and the Zefferelli film (and soundtrack) with Katia Ricciarelli and Justino Diaz. Compared to those Otellos, he is totally underpowered in this one. He lacks the supercharged singing technique, squillo and radiant quality he once had. However, Domingo is the best part of this recording, even if I've heard better Otellos from him.
Cheryl Studer sings a beautiful and very vulnerable Desdemona. She sings beautifully opposite Domingo in the Act 1 Duet and she is flexible so that in the final scene she colors her voice to effectively sound distressed and frightened. However, even with a fine voice like Studer, it's certainly no match next to Katia Ricciarelli, who, for me, remains the definative Desdemona. Also, Mirella Freni and before her Renata Tebaldi have excelled in the role. Studer is only a lesser light, but it is still beautiful.
Shame on whoever cast Sergei Leiferkus as Iago. This is the worst Iago on record. There is no real power in his voice, not enough "bite" and slimy villainousness. Compared to Justino Diaz' Iago or even Tito Gobbi, this is a supremely weak Iago. He ruined this recording. Again, please check out other Otellos, like the following:
Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi on Decca/London
Jon Vickers and Mirella Freni
Placido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Sherill Milnes/Levine
Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz/Maazel
Otello / Verdi, Domingo, Studer, Leiferkus, Vargas, D. Graves, Schade, D'Arcangelo, Chung Poster
This is Pl?cido Domingo's third recording of Otello and arguably his best. Besides benefiting from years of study and restudy, the older, rougher, darker Domingo voice is better suited to the role than his prettier, younger self. Also, the title character's rage always seemed a bit forced in previous recordings; not so here. His colleagues aren't always at peak level of inspiration but they're consistently excellent. Sergei Leiferkus's metallic, Russian sound is ideal for Iago: besides being sinister, he sounds like an outsider. Conductor Myung-Whun Chung is anything but a routinist, particularly with the Bastille forces that he worked with intensively for years. This is a fine modern recording of a great, great opera. --David Patrick StearnsClassical Music CDs
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